Having data in an in-EU owned cloud does not make it harder for the US government to get the data under the Cloud Act, because the Cloud Act isn't about the ser

Having data in an in-EU owned cloud does not make it harder for the US government to get the data under the Cloud Act, because the Cloud Act isn't about the server. It is about who controls the data. Suppose I'm a US company and I rent some storage space from a US cloud provider and put some data on their service using the APIs they provide their customers, and I rent some storage space from an EU cloud provider and put some data there using the APIs they provide their customers. I'm the one who controls that data. The cloud providers just provide storage space for me. If the US government wants to get that data using the Cloud Act they don't ask the US cloud company and the EU cloud company for it. They ask me for it. I have to retrieve it, which I do using the exact same APIs I would use if I were retrieving it for my own use. To the cloud providers it just looks like a normal case of a storage client of theirs retrieving data.